Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:09:31 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] This is ...weird: International Space Orchestra: the designer taking
 music into space
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
The French designer's story is told in her first feature-length documenta=
ry,
The International Space Orchestra, which has just had its UK premiere in =

London. The film shows Ben-Hayoun setting out from London, where she is
based, for California last June, and turning up uninvited at Nasa's Ames =

Research Centre. Within three months, she had marshalled an unlikely grou=
p
of astrophysicists into a 50-strong orchestra and choir, working with Dam=
on
Albarn and Bobby Womack.
<...>
Like a jumpsuit-clad pied piper, she helps them develop the Ground Contro=
l
opera, based on the Apollo 11 mission and set to a fantastically eclectic=

range of astro-music, summoned from a stellar cast of collaborators. Ther=
e
is Penguin Caf=E9's Arthur Jeffes, XL's Richard Russell, Gorillaz man Mik=
e
Smith and performance artist Maywa Denki. They sing in Japanese, to tunes=

based on extra-terrestrial signals, and there's an aria with surreal sci-=
fi
lyrics provided by author Bruce Sterling. Not only that, the payload
officer's on baritone sax, the capsule communicator's on the triangle, an=
d
they're all conducted by the flight controller.
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<http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/jun=
/03/international-space-orchestra-nasa>

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